Report: NFL players saw Ray Rice assault video weeks after incident

The NFL and Baltimore Ravens have long maintained that video of Ray Rice’s vicious attack on his then-fiancee was not available to them until it was made public via TMZ Sports in September.

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However, as has seemingly been the case throughout this entire process, it doesn’t appear as if the Ravens and the league are being entirely truthful about the matter.

From ESPN’s Adam Schefter (H/T Deadspin):

"You would have to think at some point somebody here will be in trouble over this. The security guy clearly knew exactly what was going on. Leadership, management, did what it could to conceal and push it through. I think that Ray Rice’s track record helped him here, that they cared about him. They wanted to believe that it was an isolated deal but they knew. There were players who were in Las Vegas a week or two after this incident and I know one player said, “You want to see the videotape of what happened?” So there were players who could see the videotape, yet the Ravens, many of the Ravens, claim they couldn’t see it."

While it seems almost unfathomable that the Ravens would deny having access to the video this entire time, when other NFL players had it shortly after the incident, no development in this story is really shocking at this point.

It’s clear at this point that the Ravens and NFL mismanaged the handling of Rice’s situation about as poorly as they could have and that’s really all there is to it.

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